Paid Facebook

[mik3cap]

If Facebook ever did go the paid route, I would ditch it instantly. It's not worth it to me, I already pay for this journal and other avenues of expression... what does this say about the "value" of my social network? I think what it tells me is that the network is at any given time just a commodity - one that I can rebuild and reform anywhere. It's great when I have it up and running somewhere, and there's a new and/or interesting application I can use with it, but ultimately all that matters is that I have my network and nobody can ever take it away from me. My network is internal to me at all times.

Going to bed now. Still buzzed from pork overload.

Comments

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

I prefer whichever place has a bigger network and more activity. Currently, that's definitely Facebook - if it goes paid, I'm sure that will change.

[narnarthinks.livejournal.com]

what if they went back to myspace

[mikecap.livejournal.com]

Nobody's ever going back to myspace; the people still there are either too set in their ways to leave or care about promoting a band. That's what myspace is now, it's basically just the Internet version of American Idol for bands, except people vote with their pocketbooks instead of with text messages. Rupert Murdoch is apparently too dumb to realize he can create a whole new American Idol kind of thing for bands online using myspace as a vehicle; he doesn't want the long tail that myspace could provide in that regard (i.e. an online "show" for ever single genre of music where bands in that style compete against one another for the hearts of the audience).